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2.6 Exercise 21

Avg difficulty 2.5

Use the following information to answer the next three exercises. State whether the data are symmetrical, skewed to the left, or skewed to the right.

Of the three measures, which tends to reflect skewing the most, the mean, the mode, or the median? Why?

OpenStax Statistics, 2.6 Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode, exercise 21

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